Editing Deborah Carthy Deu

{{Short description|Puerto Rican beauty pageant titleholder}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name                = Deborah Carthy Deu
| photo               =
| caption             = Miss Universe 1985
| title               = [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|Miss San Juan 1985]]<br />[[Miss Puerto Rico#Miss Universe|Miss Puerto Rico 1985]]<br />[[Miss Universe 1985]]
| nationalcompetition = [[Miss Puerto Rico#Miss Universe|Miss Puerto Rico 1985]]<br />(Winner)<br />[[Miss Universe 1985]]<br />(Winner)
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1966|1|5}}
| birth_place         = [[Santurce, Puerto Rico]]
| birth_name          = {{nowrap|Deborah Carthy Deu}}
| height              = 5 ft 8 in
| eye_color           = [[Eye color#Green|Green]]
| hair_color          = Light Brown
| homepage            = 
}}
'''Deborah Carthy Deu''' (born January 5, 1966) is a Puerto Rican actress, television host and beauty queen who was crowned [[Miss Universe 1985]]. She was the second Puerto Rican to win [[Miss Universe]] since [[Marisol Malaret]] in [[Miss Universe 1970|1970]].

==Early life==
Deborah Carthy Deu was born on January 5, 1966, in the [[Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico|Santurce]] district of [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] to Ramón Carthy Sanchez and Vicky Sanz Deu, of Irish and Spaniard-Puerto Rican descent. Her mother directed an academy for [[ballet]] and modeling, Academia de Ballet y Modelaje Vicky Sanz, under the name of Vicky Sanz.<ref name=lex>[http://www.lexjuris.com/biografias/buscar/search2.asp?kw=C Lexjuris.com, Biographies.]</ref> Her father was a photography director. At age nine she started taking ballet lessons at her mother's school and was trained as a [[Classical ballet|classical ballerina]].<ref name=missu>{{Cite web |url=http://www.missuniverse.com/history/index.html |title=Miss Universe, History: Deborah Carthy Deu. |access-date=2008-01-27 |archive-date=2008-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113204110/http://www.missuniverse.com/history/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She attended a Catholic elementary school and later enrolled in the ninth grade at Commonwealth High School. From age thirteen, she spent her summers in [[New York City]] taking dance classes. She later attended the [[University of Puerto Rico]] and pursued a major in drama. At thirteen, she also auditioned for [[National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico|Ballet Concierto]] and became part of the dance company and later a soloist.

==Miss Universe==
While she was in college, she was selected Miss San Juan on March 22, 1985, and [[Miss Puerto Rico#Miss Universe|Miss Puerto Rico]] on April 27, 1985.<ref name="lexjuris.com">{{Cite web |title=Clement Walker, Robert |url=https://www.lexjuris.com/biografias/buscar/search2.asp?kw=C |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=www.lexjuris.com}}</ref> On July 15, 1985, she was crowned [[Miss Universe 1985]], representing [[Puerto Rico]] in [[Miami]], [[Florida]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1985-07-16 |title=Miss Universe '85 says she worked hard to win |pages=2 |work=The La Crosse Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107422435/miss-universe-85-says-she-worked-hard/ |access-date=2022-08-12}}</ref>

After traveling the world as Miss Universe, she went to [[Argentina]] to play the leading character in the [[telenovela]] ''El Cisne Blanco''.<ref name="lexjuris.com"/> This allowed her to continue working as an actress and a model internationally, as well as a television host for both [[Univision]] and [[Telemundo]] Network.

==After Miss Universe==
Carthy Deu graduated magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico and obtained the Theater Medal, awarded to the most distinguished graduate. She majored in theater arts and education.

As an actress, she has worked both in theater and television and has earned the respect of critics for her participation, both in comedies and dramas.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

She owns a [[Model (person)|modeling]] and finishing school, known as Deborah Carthy Deu Estudio y Agencia de Modelos, in which she helps girls and women to develop social skills and self-esteem, as well as to start careers in modeling, the arts, television and participation in beauty pageants.

Carthy Deu has hosted several television shows in Puerto Rico, New York and Miami, working for both Univision and the Telemundo network on television programs such as ''[[Noche de Gala]]'', (Gala Night Ball) with [[Eddie Miró]], ''Desde Mi Pueblo'', (From My Town) with [[Yoyo Boing]] and [[Tony Croatto]], and ''La Buena Vida''.

She wrote a column for ''[[The San Juan Star]]''<ref>[http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=437935&pagenum=2 "De Puerto Rico a Venezuela"],{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''Univisión''. Retrieved on January 27, 2008.</ref> as well as a fashion review in the entertainment magazine ''[[Teve Guia]]'' until the publication closed.

From 2007 to 2009, Carthy Deu hosted a remake of ''[[Noche de Gala]]'', produced by [[Paquito Cordero]] and broadcast by [[WIPR-TV]].

Since 2003, she has been a fashion contributor for WAPA's newscast ''Noticentro Al Amanecer''.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Puerto Rico}}
*[[List of Puerto Ricans]]
*[[Irish immigration to Puerto Rico]]
*[[History of women in Puerto Rico]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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{{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Universe]]
|years=[[Miss Universe 1985|1985]]}}
{{s-aft|after={{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[Bárbara Palacios]]}}
{{S-bef|before=Sandra Beauchamp}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Puerto Rico#Miss Universe|Miss Puerto Rico]]
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{{Miss Universe titleholders}}
{{Miss Universe 1985 delegates}}
{{Miss Puerto Rico winners in the Grand Slam pageants}}
{{Big Four Pageants titleholders
|Year = 1985
|Miss World={{flagicon|Iceland}} [[Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir]]
|Miss Universe={{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} Deborah Carthy Deu
|Miss International={{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[Nina Sicilia]]
}}
{{Miss Universe Organization titleholders
|Year = 1985
|Miss Universe=Deborah Carthy Deu (Puerto Rico)
|Miss USA= [[Laura Harring|Laura Martinez-Herring]] (Texas)
|Miss Teen USA= [[Kelly Hu]] (Hawaii)
}}
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